This book reproduces the papers collected from the proceedings of a symposium organized in honor of Victor Weisskopf in 1974 at MIT. The papers merit attention because of their historic significance.
While liquid crystals are today widely known for their successful application in flat panel displays (LCDs), academic liquid crystal research is more and more targeting situations where these anisotro
Kenneth Geddes Wilson (1936–2013) — intellectual giant, Nobel Laureate, intrepid scholar, visionary thinker, pioneering physicist and a person of conscience — made seminal contributions to the foundat